Sentences with phrase «less effective teaching»

In other words, focusing on testing in the early years may lead to less effective teaching and learning, not the other way around.

Low - income students get less effective teachers: Disadvantaged students receive less effective teaching, on average, compared with other students.

On point (1), this is something we have known for years, contrary to what the authors of this brief write (i.e., «there has been limited research on the extent to which disadvantaged students receive less effective teaching than other students.»

Not exact matches

This is an important point, for, while we have often taught what is wrong with homosexuality, why it is a disorder and that «gay sex» is always morally wrong - we have been less effective at proposing the whole, positive vision of sex and love, and also what paths to fulfilment are open to people who experience same - sex attraction.

Do you mean to tell me that building a church and teaching sermons about Jesus in impoverished South American countries is somehow less effective than building family housing, teaching modern irrigation techniques, and demonstrating how even the simplest modern medicine and hygeine practices can save many, many lives?

There are many ways to save money, that are quite effective for teaching (like using lots of library books, using free resources on the Internet, etc. - see our «HS Money Saving Tips» page for more on this), but you will still have to spend some money directly on home schooling, and unless you were already planning to have one of you be a stay - at - home parent, it will mean doing with less money.

Even if they did, notes the working paper, «little is known about effective teaching of mathematics in preschool, and even less is known about science.»

I created a system of productivity called «the Art of Less Doing» about 2 years ago and I teach people how to optimize, automate, and outsource everything in their lives in order to be more effective.

I can see myself teaching my chair class the movements progressively (less effective as a warm up to most effective as the end result).

As the story moves forward with Anna — in town while Clinch robs a stagecoach — teaching Albert to shoot in order to beat Foy at a duel, the jokes become scarcer as the screenwriters abandon almost any effort at humor when matters of the plot are concerned and less effective as the movie's own comic formula runs its course.

The study found that specialist primary teachers are six per cent less effective than their non-specialist colleagues, with data showing pupils who were taught by subject specialists saw a drop in their grades.

Continual reminders that students are failing to meet high standards are less effective than establishing where exactly individuals are in their learning, tailoring teaching to meet students at their points of need, and monitoring and celebrating excellent progress towards high standards.

But how to use this data to improve teaching and learning — how to make it less overwhelming, more useful, and part of an effective collaborative process — can be challenging.

They find that if a country is comparatively effective at teaching the first group, it tends to be no less effective (as compared to others) at teaching the second.

But in our data set it was the graduates of Florida Atlantic who were significantly less effective at teaching reading to students in sixth through eighth grades.

Correlation does not imply causation, however, and it would be important to use archival data to study the introduction of specific policies regarding teacher recruitment and retention to see whether these policies achieve more diverse teaching forces as a consequence — or whether diverse teaching forces achieved via these policies are more or less effective than are those otherwise observed.

The Court of Appeal acknowledged that the challenged statutes increase the number of ineffective teachers in California schools and that low - income and minority students in California are disproportionately taught by less effective teachers.

In contrast, trial and error learning or poor teaching are less effective and take longer.

If our major policy focus is to improve student achievement by improving teacher effectiveness — accounting for 30 per cent of the variance in student achievement — we must attract higher - quality applicants to the teaching profession, improve our teacher education institutions and courses, esteem and grow those teachers who demonstrate expert potential, and mandate teacher development programs for less effective teachers.

In sum, regardless of our measure of effective teaching or exemplary scholarship, we find that top teachers are no more or less likely to be especially productive scholars than their less accomplished teaching peers.

With less of a financial burden to worry about, institutions can focus on what's important: teaching students in a modern, engaging and effective way.

Nor is there convincing evidence that minority teachers are less effective at teaching minority students.

In a routine day, a terrific 4th - grade reading teacher might give lessons in reading for just one hour, while spending another five hours teaching other subjects in which she is less effective, filling out paperwork, and so on.

The second component is to have the school staff read my manual, A Revolutionary Guide to Reducing Aggression between Children, which explains what happens when adults make themselves responsible for stopping kids» fights, and teaches a less hysterical and more effective approach to the problem.

Given the pedagogical emphasis on the use of problem - solving activities, it seems unlikely that the very best teachers would be using the less - effective teaching style (the only alternative explanation for our finding).

Critics contend that teachers prepared through alternative routes are less prepared to teach, and less effective in their early years, than teachers from traditional programs.

Teachers generally do become more effective with a few years of teaching experience, but we also find evidence that teachers may become less effective with experience, particularly later in their careers.

Unfortunately the same is also often true when someone student - teaches with a less effective teacher.

And we can not even begin to question the dedication of teachers and the obscene amount of hours worked in an academic year, I'm no mathematician but just a quick calculation would indicate the average teacher works 60 hours per week, based upon this very broad assumption it's possible to suggest the average teacher works approximately 2000 + hours during an academic year, so it does beg the question, considering the Maxwell Curve; How much more effective and «healthy» would the teaching profession become if the principle of «less is more» underpinned it's mantra?

«For the most part, no matter how you split the data, I hesitate to use the word «worse,» but teachers who are less qualified, or less effective, tend to be teaching more disadvantaged students,» said Goldhaber.

Research confirms what logic and experience dictate: that teachers - in training are significantly less effective in supporting student achievement than those who are fully trained when they enter teaching, and that the negative effects are particularly pronounced for students whose success depends most acutely on fully - trained professionals.

«I am proud to be «less effective» than some of my peers because I chose to teach to the emotional and academic needs of my students.»

As Dropout Nation noted last week in its report on teacher evaluations, even the most - rigorous classroom observation approaches are far less accurate in identifying teacher quality than either value - added analysis of test score data or even student surveys such as the Tripod system used by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation as part of its Measures of Effective Teaching project.

I agree with the arguments that charter schools are not necessarily more effective than the traditional public schools, and the fact that charter schools hire uncertified and less experienced teachers to teach.

Summary: This workshop will focus on strategies, tips, non-threatening verbal & written communication methods, and team building exercises to make an effective, less stressful and enjoyable teaching team.

Writing is a very challenging skill to learn and there is less evidence about the most effective ways to teach writing than there is about reading.

The Honoré Center is rooted in the concept that black male teachers may be more effective at teaching young black men, who are more likely to struggle in the classroom and are significantly less likely than their white counterparts to graduate from high school and college.

Good teaching of reading, or any other subject, can not simply be a matter of using the «right» method, because any method may be more or less effective depending on its fit with the school, the classroom, the teacher, and the needs of individual children.

A school - based teacher preparation program in which a prospective teacher, for not less than one academic year, teaches alongside an effective teacher, as determined by the state or local educational agency, who is the teacher of record for the classroom, receives concurrent instruction during the year, through courses that may be taught by local educational agency personnel or by faculty of the teacher preparation program; and in the teaching of the content area in which the teacher will become certified or licensed; and acquires effective teaching skills, as demonstrated through completion of a residency program, or other measure determined by the state, which may include a teacher performance assessment.»

These residency programs will allow prospective teachers — for a period not less than one academic year — to teach alongside an effective teacher in a mentor / mentee capacity.

Training that fails to take in to account local knowledge and context is likely to be irrelevant, less effective, and poorly received in the same way that teaching that ignores pupil's own knowledge is ineffective.

Teaching Fellows» novices were slightly less effective than experienced teachers.

This paper analyzes attrition patterns among teachers in New York City elementary and middle schools and explores whether teachers who transfer among schools, or leave teaching entirely, are more or less effective than those who remain.

Meanwhile, we have good evidence indicating that schools today are reasonably — if imperfectly — effective at teaching kids the less - glamorous knowledge and skills — e.g., in math, science, and history — that we associate with «traditional» education.

How could it be true that OfSTED think teaching is less effective than you do?

Common Core has caused the depersonalization of the teaching profession, resulting in less effective time on teaching, slower productivity, and a rigid classroom environment which can not be sustained.

Students enrolled in successive classes taught by effective teachers show greater gains in student performance than student groups taught by less effective teachers (Sanders & Rivers, 1996).

His new work addresses research on how effective teachers teach less - structured skills: how to summarize, how to take notes, how to ask appropriate questions, etc..

Alternatively, some teachers may be more effective at teaching some content and skills and less effective at others.

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